Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f77f02d4c78a8b31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.1 KB Created: 2020-08-20 07:30:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0f1310c0e32e16d95c424e0e4ffdbc13 SHA-1: 027b7dffb8265dd48e51e59b4110ac2b3f04dc75 SHA-256: f77f02d4c78a8b31a4fc2d7aaeead2412f737c32e8958b1ea337c65a0cf564d9
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. This URL is embedded within the document body, disguised as a link to an analytical chemistry PDF. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, many hosted on Shopify, which is indicative of a link farm used for SEO poisoning or to obscure malicious destinations. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=analytical+chemistry+laboratory+experiments+pdf
    • http://files.tribalexperiences.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408131/gemufufegatofubi.pdf
    • http://files.fishforinfo.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437775/deeacdb0d0.pdf
    • http://files.tigerblackbeltacademy.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695535/wukiwonazubate_fedokar_genoranib_fosek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2511/1967/files/kojojoradojazojez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2562/1404/files/jaguar_xk8_owners_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9565/4567/files/52212010179.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9472/7074/files/80382613092.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5856/9128/files/legelawetuloxidig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9045/0334/files/30831569621.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3622/9278/files/67477905621.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0857/3091/files/aula_2_curso_de_espanol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2942/2499/files/full_forms_of_computer_abbreviations.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000a248.bin
50da9836d73d46216f612438184976ee3f360b5fd115ddbd4d024b4f477e895c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA248 5692 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b570.bin
d37f96bdf037efc435b590359a451a6c52bf4ef576fc44c297217b631d6449e0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB570 15200 bytes